Ezekiel 38:17 · JPS 1917

Thus saith the Lord GOD: Art thou he of whom I spoke in old time by My servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for many years, that I would bring thee against them?

Who acts: Lord GOD, thou, I, prophets · What happens: say, be, speak, prophesy, bring · To what, where: Gog, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ezekiel 38:17 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord GOD, thou, I, prophets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 saith	advmod
2	saith	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 GOD	det
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 GOD	compound
5	GOD	GOD	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saith	nsubj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
7	Art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 he	cop
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 he	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saith	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 spoke	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 spoke	nsubj
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 he	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 servants	case
18	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 servants	nmod:poss
19	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spoke	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prophets	det
21	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 servants	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Israel	case
23	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 prophets	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 prophesied	punct
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 prophesied	nsubj
26	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 prophets	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 days	case
28	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 days	det
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 prophesied	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 years	case
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 years	amod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 prophesied	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bring	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 bring	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 bring	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 bring	aux
37	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 prophesied	ccomp
38	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 bring	obj
39	against	against	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bring	obl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saith	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Lord GOD			thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	thou	Gog			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past	I		time	by My servants	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prophesy	past	the prophets of Israel		day; year		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bring	would	I	thee		against prophets = prophet	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme against they=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה הַֽאַתָּה־ה֨וּא אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֜רְתִּי בְּיָמִ֣ים קַדְמוֹנִ֗ים בְּיַד֙ עֲבָדַי֙ נְבִיאֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַֽנִּבְּאִ֛ים בַּיָּמִ֥ים הָהֵ֖ם שָׁנִ֑ים לְהָבִ֥יא אֹתְךָ֖ עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ס

Ezekiel 38:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZK:1012 of Mova's parse database.

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